Wildflowers: Plague vine ID in Mexico

I'm an English expat living in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, and very new here. So a big hello to everyone.

Location of Leon in Google maps - 21.140717, -101.672534

Ordinarily, I wouldn't just join a forum and immediately ask for help, but I need your help with a plague plant that is getting out of control and smothering all our trees. The vine is not particular with tree type and is happy on Mezquite, Pirúl, Casuarina, White cedar, pine, Cypress, huizache, mulberry tree, peach trees, apple trees. You name it.

It's a vine like plant that starts as a (very) pine-sappy seed (pic 1), that I believe sticks to birds that brush by and then sticks to other trees they land on. Some of the locals say it is eaten and pooped out by birds, but I don't think this is the case as there's no evidence of bird poop around most of the seedlings.

Sorry, no pics of the flowers as they are not flowering at the moment.

I hope these pics are enough, and clear enough for identification.

We currently treat the issue by removing what we can by hand, but the Mezquite trees are big wide trees with thin closely packed branches covered in vicious spikes that puncture all types of clothing and gloves. People used these spikes as needles for sewing leather.

Hi David
Is it growing out of the ground?
If so. Does it have its own root system when you lift it out of the ground?
It looks like a mistletoe to me.
Mistletoe are parasitic plants that germinate onto host plants

No. Unfortunately, I can't say I've seen it ground based at any point. We do also have Passion flowers, which are also kind of invasive, in a pretty way, and these do have a ground rooting vine that is easy to identify. So, I do know what you mean by coming from the ground. But these vines appear purely parasitic by nature.

Kind of wish you posted your photos here as attachments, so that the photos don't disappear eventually... (since it seems like others might learn from this thread, particularly if they are having the same issue)